This makes me wonder what other "household" products and chemicals could
potentially be used for ends such as chip fab, etching, etc.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/07/2016240
Yep. Tequila can be used to make diamond.
"Researchers, oddly enough from the National Autonomous University of
Mexico, have found a way to make diamond films using tequila. They were
originally testing methods of creating the films with organic solutions
like acetone when it was noticed the ideal ratios of water and ethanol
turned out to be about 80 proof, or 40% alcohol. '"To dissipate any
doubts, one morning on the way to the lab I bought a pocket-size bottle
of cheap white tequila and we did some tests," Apátiga said. "We were in
doubt over whether the great amount of chemicals present in tequila,
other than water and ethanol, would contaminate or obstruct the process,
it turned out to be not so. The results were amazing, same as with the
ethanol and water compound, we obtained almost spherical shaped diamonds
of nanometric size. There is no doubt; tequila has the exact proportion
of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms necessary to form diamonds."'"
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